The Great Calamity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBDEFEDGHIHJKJF AFAK ALALMKN AMAOPAPAQ Q DRDR ASATAT UVUV| MacFierce'un came to Whiskeyhurst | A |
| When summer days were hot | A |
| And bided there wi' Jock MacThirst | A |
| A brawny brother Scot | A |
| Good faith They made the whisky fly | B |
| Like Highland chieftains true | C |
| And when they'd drunk the beaker dry | B |
| They sang 'We are nae fou | D |
| There's nae folk like oor ain folk | E |
| Sae gallant and sae true ' | F |
| They sang the only Scottish joke | E |
| Which is 'We are nae fou' | D |
| Said bold MacThirst 'Let Saxons jaw | G |
| Aboot their great concerns | H |
| But Bonnie Scotland beats them a' | I |
| The Land o' Cakes and Burns | H |
| The land of pairtridge deer and grouse | J |
| Fill up your glass I beg | K |
| There's muckle whiskey i' the house | J |
| Forbye what's in the keg ' | F |
| And here a hearty laugh he laughed | A |
| 'Just come wi' me I beg ' | F |
| MacFierce'un saw with pleasure daft | A |
| A fifty gallon keg | K |
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| 'Losh man that's graund ' MacFierce'un cried | A |
| 'Saw ever man the like | L |
| Moo wi' the daylicht I maun ride | A |
| To meet a Southron tyke | L |
| But I'll be back ere summer's gone | M |
| So bide for me I beg | K |
| We'll mak' a graund assault upon | N |
| Yon deevil of a keg ' | - |
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| MacFierce'un rode to Whiskeyhurst | A |
| When summer days were gone | M |
| And there he met with Jock MacThirst | A |
| Was greetin' all alone | O |
| 'MacThirst what gars ye look sae blank | P |
| Hae all your wuts gane daft | A |
| Has that accursed Southron bank | P |
| Called up your overdraft | A |
| Is all your grass burnt up wi' drouth | Q |
| Is wool and hides gane flat ' | - |
| MacThirst replied 'Guid friend in truth | Q |
| 'Tis muckle waur than that ' | - |
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| 'Has sair misfortune cursed your life | D |
| That you should weep sae free | R |
| Is harm upon your bonnie wife | D |
| The children at your knee | R |
| Is scaith upon your house and hame ' | - |
| MacThirst upraised his head | A |
| 'My bairns hae done the deed of shame | S |
| 'Twere better they were dead | A |
| To think my bonnie infant son | T |
| Should do the deed o' guilt | A |
| He let the whiskey spigot run | T |
| And a' the whiskey's spilt ' | - |
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| Upon them both these words did bring | U |
| A solemn silence deep | V |
| Good faith it is a fearsome thing | U |
| To see two strong men weep | V |
Banjo Paterson
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